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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Tennessee rates for HCPCS 64479

Numbing medicine and/or an anti-inflammatory steroid is injected near a nerve root as it exits the spine in the neck or upper back, using real-time imaging to guide the needle precisely. This covers treatment of the first spinal level; treating additional levels in the same visit is billed separately.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level cost?

$1,789

Typical total for the visit. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,789 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $240 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$240$148 to $331
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$912 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $525 to $3,981Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $123 to $575
$100.0$1.0K$10.0Kfacility $1,549professional $240

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$4,073.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$245.47
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$371.54
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,187.76
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$446.68
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$32,359.37
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$467.74

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 11.3 times more in Connecticut than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility feeTennessee $1,789 · 28th of 50
CT $4,828MD $429

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.